You Can’t-Miss This Retro Bobber! Hi. I’m Loen Montefusco the owner of Lucky boy Customs. We are a Stockholm based workshop in St Erikplan. Our lifestyle is to ride and customize motorcycles. we build different kinds of bikes, Suzuki’s, Honda, Urals, Harley’s and more. we would like to offer you the best of our services to the best price that fits your budget tell us about your ideas and the things you would like to change on your bike and we will make sure to satisfy your needs.

In the Builder’s Words

This Project took me about 5 months to build it from scratch. The project started by stripping down to bare metal. I bought a 1994 stock Sportster and kept a few things from the bike, the front wheel, the engine, the speedo well that’s it. the rest is what you see…the frame is totally custom…the neck is a 1943 b33 BSA, and I gave it a 35 degrees rake. The hard-tail is from an old twin cam. A big welding challenge to get it right. I didn’t want the frame very low but not very high either, it’s about 12 cm from the ground under the engine which gives me a good clearance to not hit into whatever is out there on the road.

The back-wheel rim needed to be bigger. So, I bought a 19″ front rim and re-spoke it to fit the rear hub. The front end is an I-beam replica 1936, 2″ understock. Tires oh yes, the tires are 19″ Firestone Champion Deluxe with no white wall. It doesn’t exist. So, I put that on. The seatis a k-model 1945 replica on soft springs to keep your kidneys from falling off your body.

The engine was converted from 883 to 1200cc with custom upsweep pipes and with a custom velocity stack on the carb. Of course, I needed to reject that thing, but that´s not hard.

One of the biggest challenges was to get the front brake right. As you can see, it´s wire driven from the backward brake levers, BMWs 1943 replicas…to the master cylinder which is located under the tank and from there it turns hydraulic to activate the front end caliper brake.. It took me a while to get it right. The internal throttle is also sharing the same space with the brake wire. The tank is elongated and I hammered the indents of the sides. Patience patience…

The headlight housing took me a couple of days to build. I took an old BMWs housing, a 7″ and turn into a 5″ to fit the stock HD headlight. It took a lot of welding and cutting. This is the first motorcycle I ever built. It was very fun, and now I´m hooked.

]]>https://www.thesmokeydogs.com/2018/12/you-cant-miss-this-retro-bobber/feed/0Vagabund Moto’s Customized BMW R100R 1993https://www.thesmokeydogs.com/2018/11/vagabund-motos-customized-bmw-r100r-1993-the-smokey-dogs/
https://www.thesmokeydogs.com/2018/11/vagabund-motos-customized-bmw-r100r-1993-the-smokey-dogs/#respondWed, 21 Nov 2018 10:51:00 +0000Background Info of Vagabund Moto : A motorcycle can not stand still, the movement is in its nature. Vagabund Moto is dedicated to reinterpreting this timeless transport method, as it is unique in aesthetics and performance. We don’t reinvent the wheel, but we think about it again. “We‘re not reinventing the …

Background Info of Vagabund Moto :

A motorcycle can not stand still, the movement is in its nature. Vagabund Moto is dedicated to reinterpreting this timeless transport method, as it is unique in aesthetics and performance. We don’t reinvent the wheel, but we think about it again.

“We‘re not reinventing the wheel, but we‘re rethinking it.”

Our projects will never be forced into a form such as a café racer, scrambler, tracker, brat, chopper or bobber. These are only recommendations, ready to be broken. We see the motorcycle as a state of being because it transcends class and status as no other vehicle does. These high octane pieces are handmade in a workshop in northern Graz, Austria. You can find them all over the world. However, you can never fully own them, because a true vagabond belongs to the road forever.

About Vagabund’s V03 BMW R100R 1993

Vagabund Moto an Austrian motorcycle customizers present their impressive new Vagabund’s V03 BMW R100R. The result is a beautiful motorcycle, which is great to look at and great to ride, fusing the concepts of a café racer and a scrambler. Looking like a vintage bike, Vagabund Moto succeeded in creating a beautiful mix of old and new, adding some great futuristic details, modern lights and more to the bike.

What modifications are made and what parts are used?

100% street-legal in Austria

Completely new designed and welded rear frame

Original R100R wheels, knocked down, powder-coated with new stainless spokes

]]>https://www.thesmokeydogs.com/2018/11/vagabund-motos-customized-bmw-r100r-1993-the-smokey-dogs/feed/0The Best Custom Indian Scout | The Smokey Dogshttps://www.thesmokeydogs.com/2018/10/the-best-custom-indian-scout-the-smokey-dogs/
https://www.thesmokeydogs.com/2018/10/the-best-custom-indian-scout-the-smokey-dogs/#respondSun, 14 Oct 2018 05:30:00 +0000https://www.thesmokeydogs.com/2018/10/the-best-custom-indian-scout-the-smokey-dogs/Welcome to The Smokey Dogs once again. The beautiful Indian Scout you see here is the work of The Bike Shed based in London. The project outline called for a clean, minimalist Indian Scout that combined show bike looks, with real-world rideability. This was no small task. The build began with a full teardown and an inspection of …

The project outline called for a clean, minimalist Indian Scout that combined show bike looks, with real-world rideability. This was no small task. The build began with a full teardown and an inspection of all parts.

let’s talk about Regular Rides Max’s custom Indian scout, what they have had done? To begin with they changed the original wheels and rims from the standard Scout ones a little bit a little bit big and bulky. They’ve now got spoked rims and the Indian scout bobber 2018 tires Gomer lists which handle beautifully. They went from there they have got a complete one-off headlight which has been custom made to fit bike really stands out and just change the whole dynamic of the bike give a flat track a cafe racer style. from there they’ve got to track bars which again changes the whole dynamic and flow of the bike something I wouldn’t change for the world.

Changed Levers again as an aesthetic thing changing them from the standard chrome ones to black ones. change of grips to the 2018 version and they got the Moto gadget disc indicator which the only indicators which do feature throughout the bike so again just keeping it with a whole complete sleek design. They have got a custom Indian badge which hides where they have got the cables running through the handlebars rather than having them on display there are no electric wires on show whatsoever. Next on the speedo had a change from the standard chrome to a black cover just to go the rest of style bike. moving on from there they have changed the tank. The original tank was a matte black tank Max have had it resprayed into a gloss black and then the grey little see the gloss gray is actually a wrap which goes over the top with pinstriping throughout again really really pleased with it.

If we move on to what max has done underneath so starting off with the new radiator grill then again standard ones give a bit more of a shine to it and so again completely one often custom. Next, from their engine mods, new air filter, power commander with a dyno remap to go alongside the freedom flow exhaust which sounds amazing. Moving up from their custom bobber seat which goes along with the removal of the rear fender so none of this big focus stuff going on it’s completely custom design.

Underneath the seat, we have got LED strip lighting which is just your typical brake lights base piece that keeps it all very minimalistic. Rear fender again cut down minimal so there’s nothing it just puts everything on the rear wheel on a shape and finishing it off with the öhlins which are one of the best features of the bike having with the gold adjustment canisters which again go alongside the tan seat.

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That is Max’s custom Indian scout.

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